Ref. Plane Chartering Limited, I would not get too carried away at this stage. A search of the Companies House data base reveals that the company was only incorporated on 1st November 2006. The limited company has it's registered office based in Hove !
Unless it's taken over the business of some existing company, then they certainly have a long way to go...:confused:

The company has just been set up in the UK and is currently based in Antibes, France. the headquarters are to be moved to Newcastle Airport and the owner Karl Watkin a Newcastle entrepreneur.

There is an article to be found on icnewcastle...search Newcastle Airport.

So all in all, what does this mean for Newcastle?

As far as I can make out it will mean the introduction of one or more 6 seater plus executive aircraft to be available for private charter at NCL and certain other airports in the UK.

All in all a useful addition to the services available at the airport.

I see tour operator 'Scot Travel' will operate extra services to Turkey, DLM and BJV during summer 07 using a/c of FHY Freebird Airlines. This makes upto 20 flights per week NCL-Turkey, servind Dalaman, Bodrum, Antalya and Izmir/Adnan using TCX, TOM, MYT, XL, OHY and FHY. Obviously the number of people travelling on their jollies to Turkey is increasing - possibly the next boom for loco carriers?

any news what aircraft will op the flight??
cheers P.

Unclebaldy,
I believe it'll be a FlyBe 146 again :ok:

Cheers, for that. P.

Is it not a Jet 2 733!!

http://www.newcastleairport.com/Corp...-structure.htm

Seems to have been a few management changes recently following the untimely departure of Lars Friis, FD

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Does anyone know what is happening with Jet2 at NCL this summer?
How many aircraft will be based? and is it likely any new routes will be announced any time soon?

I think its 3 maybe 4 737s 1 757 and a 146.

But Jet2 are having trouble getting 757s at the moment. They had to send 2 back as they needed too much work to get them into service!

It now looks like 3 737s 1 757 and the 146

The changes to management have nothing to do with the unfortunate loss of Lars!!!

Why do you suggest they do??

Is the Jet2 programme, with current flight times sustainable with that plan of based aircraft, there seems to be alot of overlapping with departure times etc?

My comment was made entirely without prejudice nor inference, purely an observation.

Apologies if i've offended

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I've been having the same difficulties with JET 2 with overlapping and gaps in utilisation. Could be more flights to be announced or time changes to come perhaps?

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Could they be going to do some charter work for another airline during the gaps in the schedules. Or could they be sub chartering themselves to take care of the overlaps ? Or do a major re schedule excercise.
Seems a bit late to announce new routes for summer 07. However flights to Pula, Dubrovnic and Jersey would be a much needed addition.

I wouldn't imagine that they will subcharter a/c to operate their flights, though they could very well be operating the odd ad-hoc themselves during the gap, football charters etc. I would imagine that a few flights will be rescheduled.

For example, if 3 737, 1 757 and a 146 are to be based, then monday would be a bit of an impossibiliy:
a/c 1 - 0645/0955 AMS then 1030/1710 PSA
a/c 2 - 1010/1635 KRK then 1710/2020 AMS
a/c 3 - 1300/1940 MJV
a/c 4 - 1030/1700 PMI
146 a/c - all the LGW flights
this leaves no a/c to operate the ORK schedule and many other days are the same where there are too many flights departing around similar times and not arriving back in enough time to operate another service.

New routes to JER, Dubrovnik and Pula would be nice. The areas of the former Yugoslavia used to be very popular from NCL and in recent years have regained their reputation for up market breaks and with loco carriers and the likes of BA now serving these destinations from other UK airports the future for these destinations looks very positive and it would be nice for geordie travellers to be offered the option of flying from their local airport. I do, however remember reading somewhere that the areas of Split, DBV and Pula were struggling to meet demand, i.e matching the amount of visitors with hotel rooms, so maybe that could be a possibility as to why NCL has no such link?

I always thought that NCL having no links to VCE, MAD and WAW was a bit strange considering the amount of loco activity we now have!

Well looking at that I think you lot will get a maximum of 3 737 and a 146.... don't forget that you will need 2x 737QC over the summer once the royal mail network changes. (a new route starting from NCL that Jet2 have got)